Howdy,

I was toying with the idea of having pgp signed mail flowing in echomail.

I actually want to use it to send data between BBS systems and have the BBS verify that a message did infact originate from another process (where that process would sign the message content).

Googling around I found this library which I thought may do the heavy lifting for me and keep it all in javascript (instead of execing OS commands).

Unfortunately, this is a little more complex than my skills, so wondering if anybody has done anything like this - or has some spare bandwidth to get me started. ;)

My first step was to create a js file that just had:

var gpg = load({},'kbpgp/kbpgp-2.1.0.js');

but jsexec that file and it spits out this error:
line 31516: TypeError: ArrayBuffer.isView is not a function

If I comment out that part of the code, then there complains about buf.write() not being a function.

Googling around, it seems that ArrayBuffer is normal part of javascript, so my first thought is maybe the javascript library in SBBS is missing advancements in javascript that perhaps kbpgp is leveraging?

Any tips would be appreciated.
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Re: https://keybase.io/kbpgp
By: Alterego to All on Tue Oct 08 2019 22:21:05

Googling around, it seems that ArrayBuffer is normal part of javascript, so my first thought is
maybe the javascript library in SBBS is missing advancements in javascript that perhaps kbpgp is
leveraging?

Almost certainly.

MDN is a good place to look for stuff like this:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer

Check the "Specifications" section near the bottom of the page. If a feature was introduced after ECMAScript 5.1, we don't have it (yet). Synchronet's JS engine was last updated somewhere around 2011.

I was toying with the idea of having pgp signed mail flowing in echomail.

Googling around I found this library which I thought may do the heavy lifting for me and keep it all
in javascript (instead of execing OS commands).

You might find somebody's old project on GitHub:

https://github.com/search?l=JavaScript&p=2&q=pgp&type=Repositories

Something last updated prior to 2015 stands a chance of working or being portable.

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Re: https://keybase.io/kbpgp
By: echicken to Alterego on Tue Oct 08 2019 09:50 am

You might find somebody's old project on GitHub: https://github.com/search?l=JavaScript&p=2&q=pgp&type=Repositories Something last updated prior to 2015 stands a chance of working or being portable.

Ahh, thank you - I'll take a look...

Check the "Specifications" section near the bottom of the page. If a feature was introduced after ECMAScript 5.1, we don't have it (yet). Synchronet's JS engine was last updated somewhere around 2011.

DM - any chance that JS engine can be updated ? (on knees begging...)

Is it a big effort?
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Re: https://keybase.io/kbpgp
By: Alterego to echicken on Wed Oct 09 2019 09:20 am

Re: https://keybase.io/kbpgp
By: echicken to Alterego on Tue Oct 08 2019 09:50 am

You might find somebody's old project on GitHub: https://github.com/search?l=JavaScript&p=2&q=pgp&type=Repositories Something last updated prior to 2015 stands a chance of working or being portable.

Ahh, thank you - I'll take a look...

Check the "Specifications" section near the bottom of the page. If a feature was introduced after ECMAScript 5.1, we don't have it (yet). Synchronet's JS engine was last updated somewhere around 2011.

DM - any chance that JS engine can be updated ? (on knees begging...)

It will be eventually.

Is it a big effort?

Yes.

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Re: https://keybase.io/kbpgp
By: Digital Man to Alterego on Tue Oct 08 2019 04:14 pm

DM - any chance that JS engine can be updated ? (on knees begging...)

It will be eventually.

Well, I'm looking forward to that happening :)

Is it a big effort?

Yes.

I'm happy to help - while I'm not really a C/C++/JS coder, I can normally figure stuff out with a google search.

But I can help with testing - and very easily spin up isolated test environments... (And if you use git, I can automate that bit, perhaps even using some CI testing :)
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